Of Michael Behrendt and Maren Wittge
You’re sticking again. After a short break, the activists from “Last Generation” are back on the streets of Berlin.
According to a police officer, it looks like a coordinated action on Monday morning. At the same time, several blockade actions started around 9 a.m.
The activists blocked important junctions across the city.
► Invalidenstrasse between the Tiergarten tunnel and Clara-Jaschke-Strasse was closed near the main train station. According to the police, four to six activists stuck to the intersection of Invalidenstrasse and Friedrich-List-Ufer.
Police officers try to detach the hands of the climate activists from Invalidenstrasse Photo: Spreepicture
► According to the federal police, five activists also stuck to the tram stop at Europlatz.
► “Five activists are sticking to Wilhelmstrasse at the corner of Hallesches Ufer in Kreuzberg,” says a police spokeswoman.
Police officers remove the hands of the air-conditioning stickers with oil from the street Photo: George Kalozois
► Five people blocked traffic at the corner of Potsdamer Straße and Varian-Fry-Straße. Four of them were stuck. The press spokeswoman for the “last generation” Carla Hinrichs also took part in this blockade. Benjamin F. is also on site. He was among the activists who also recently blocked BER – and had been taken into custody.
Berlin’s GdP spokesman Benjamin Jendro: “Today we also see why we need the possibility of longer detention in accordance with ASOG for Berlin. It’s not thousands of people who stick to the asphalt, step on runways and damage art museums, but the same protagonists over and over again.”
Benjamin Jendro: “Of course, the Berlin police are also prepared for these guerrilla actions in the name of the climate, especially since these crimes and the willingness to break the law even more intensively have been publicly announced again, so nobody can really be surprised anymore. Our democracy is and will remain non-negotiable. If you want to make a difference, you can’t do it with an absolutist way of thinking and breaking the law, but instead use constitutional means to win political majorities.”
After a week’s break, the fourth wave of protests is now continuing. It should be more intense than the previous ones. They want to cause interruptions in the “arteries of society” and disrupt the everyday lives of Berliners.